All Aboard the Katrina Gravy Train - Halliburton, Shaw, Bechtel

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050910/pl_nm/contracts_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President George W. Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.

One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.

Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

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[Imalittleteapot]

1. THEY MUST

hire New Orleans workers. PERIOD.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

2. Conveying these...

...giveaways to corporate cronies so soon in the wake of Katrina serves as compelling testament to the insignificance of public opinion to Bushco. Of course, when you control the ballot box, what difference does it really make?

[Moderator]

3. Laura PackYourBags

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[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. sorry. I knew that. won't do it again. thanks....